Center for Science Writings Event - Can Science Tell Us How to be Good?

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 –
(
4:00 pm to
5:30 pm )

Location: Babbio Auditorium, Stevens Institute of Technology

Contact:

jhorgan@stevens.edu

CAN SCIENCE TELL US HOW TO BE GOOD?A talk by philosopher Philip Kitcher.Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 4-5:30 p.m. Babbio Auditorium.Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, will discuss one of the most pressing questions in modern philosophy, and a topic of his book The Ethical Project: Can science help us find a universal set of moral rules?

The Center for Science Writings (CSW) is part of the College of Arts & Letters. All CSW events are free and open to the public. For more information see the CSW website, www.stevens.edu/cal/csw, or contact CSW Director John Horgan, jhorgan@stevens.edu.